Control: severity -1 normal On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 03:17:32AM +0000, peter green wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 1.1.3 > Severity: grave
It works everywhere else, including the buildds, so I'm downgrading this to normal, as it must be a configuration issue on your side. > > When running apt in a Debian stretch armhf chroot on my odriod u2 DNS > resoloution fails. ping is able to resolve the hostname. ping runs as root, the apt methods run as _apt. > > root@odroidu2:/# apt-get update > Err:1 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian stretch InRelease > Could not resolve 'mirror.bytemark.co.uk' > Reading package lists... Done > W: Failed to fetch > http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease Could not > resolve 'mirror.bytemark.co.uk' > W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones > used instead. > root@odroidu2:/# ping mirror.bytemark.co.uk > PING mirror.bytemark.co.uk (212.110.161.69) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from mirror.bytemark.co.uk (212.110.161.69): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 > time=20.8 ms > > The chroot is on a host system running a vendor 3.0.90 kernel, no idea if > that is relavent. At the very least if there is a problem running on older > kernels there should be a warning before the updated packages are installed. > > The issue seems to be new in the 1.1 series of apt versions. > > The issue definately seems to be somehow related to dns lookups. If I add > the hostname to /etc/resolv.conf then apt seems to work. > You might want to try running the ping as the _apt user and check if that works. Maybe the _apt user does not have access to /etc/resolv.conf? -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.